Gastroenterology
Volume 118, Issue 4 , Pages 670-677 , April 2000

Endoscopic mucosal resection of early cancer and high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus

Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association in Orlando, May 1999.

Received 13 September 1999 ,Accepted 7 December 1999.

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☆ Address requests for reprints to: Christian Ell, Ph.D., Department of Medicine II, HSK Wiesbaden, Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse 100, 65199 Wiesbaden, Germany. e-mail: ell@mail.uni-mainz.de; fax: (49)-611-432418.

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Gastroenterology
Volume 118, Issue 4 , Pages 670-677 , April 2000

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